Iran experts ‘advising Pyongyang on rocket launch’

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Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, has allegedly sought help from IranAP

Anne Barrowclough

Last updated at 4:29AM, December 10 2012

North Korea is receiving help from Iranian missile experts as it works to
repair a faulty section of its long-range rocket ahead of a test launch,
according to reports.

Pyongyang had said it was considering delaying the launch, which had been
scheduled between December 10 and 22, because of unspecified “problems”
which its technicians had discovered at the Sohae satellite launch station.

But new satellite images suggest the the faulty component was being replaced,
according to the Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

“A new third stage of the North’s three-stage missile Unha-3 was seen being
moved Saturday afternoon from a missile plant